In this war, the virtual life civilization had undoubtedly displayed stronger warship control and more formidable combat power than Xiao Yu. In fact, if Xiao Yu had not been relying on favorable terrain, relying on the star system’s defense system he had already constructed, relying on those interstellar gun turrets that either did not strike at all or never missed when they did, Xiao Yu simply would not have been able to hold out until now.
Even though Xiao Yu had managed to hold on until now, the current situation was still extrely unfavorable for him. After all, if the virtual life’s computational power was stronger than his own, then this would not only show in battle, it should also surpass him in terms of war potential. It had not yet begun carrying out logistics-related construction, but that was only because it had not started yet. Once it realized that the war had reached a stalemate, it would absolutely begin transporting stars everywhere, building warship bases, and using its even greater computational power to swallow him up. This was extrely unfavorable for Xiao Yu.
So, on the battlefield, Xiao Yu spared one percent of his massive computational power and, relying on the complete intelligence network he had already constructed, did his utmost to observe and analyze every move of the virtual life civilization, trying to find its weakness.
After this round of searching, Xiao Yu really did find sothing suspicious.
It should be said that these warships under the control of the virtual life civilization displayed the sa characteristics as the warships under Xiao Yu’s control, tight coordination, complete cooperation, and when working together, they were like different arms of the sa person. This was the greatest difference between computation-type civilizations and ordinary intelligent civilizations, because no ordinary technological civilization, no matter how well trained, could make its military achieve such a level of coordination.
There was nothing strange about this, but Xiao Yu noticed so anomalous ships. These anomalous ships still displayed these characteristics in battle, but before they were destroyed, their behavior showed so bizarre actions.
They displayed a certain tendency to flee and evade. So ships even put that tendency into action. They truly did flee, although they did not actually manage to escape.
Their flight even caused a certain level of impact on the attacking formation they were coordinating with. It was just like the escape incident Xiao Yu had just encountered. One ship, when facing Xiao Yu’s fierce attack, showed signs of fleeing. It paid no attention at all to the dozens of other ships beside it that were still coordinating their attack. If it had not fled, then with proper cooperation, that formation could very well have won that battle. But it fled anyway. Its flight affected those dozens of ships, severely disrupting their formation and allowing Xiao Yu’s ships to completely eliminate that formation at the first mont.
Even stranger, the instant they displayed a tendency to flee, those ships suddenly stopped moving. In other words, their escape actions could only last for a single instant. After that instant, those ships seed to lose all energy and hung motionless in space. Then Xiao Yu destroyed them with complete ease.
This phenonon was very rare, but because of the enormous number of ships across the whole battlefield, from the start of the war until now, only a few days had passed, and Xiao Yu had already noticed at least five hundred such incidents. This could not help but draw Xiao Yu’s attention. It had to be understood that any strange behavior displayed by the virtual life civilization might be an indirect manifestation of its weakness. In war, finding the enemy’s weakness was Xiao Yu’s true weapon for defeating the enemy.
“What does this an?” Xiao Yu thought tensely. “The coordination and cooperation of their ships cannot be faked. Their ships cannot possibly be controlled by intelligent beings. No intelligent being could achieve this no matter what. But if they are not controlled by intelligent beings, then how could their ships show a tendency to flee? Take my ships for example. Would I possibly allow my ships to flee at the risk of breaking formation and causing even greater losses? Every ship has the sa value to . Without any special combat objective, how could I sacrifice more ships for the sake of a single ship? What exactly does this tendency to flee an?”
This was a highly contradictory problem, and Xiao Yu could not find any reasonable explanation. Perhaps these occasional phenona were rely the virtual life civilization malfunctioning, perhaps these escape incidents were caused only by errors in its internal program calculations, and the fact that those ships stopped moving the mont an escape incident occurred might rely have been its internal error-correction chanism taking effect.
But Xiao Yu always felt that sothing was not right. It was already a lifeform, an existence within the computer world, and a lifeform was ultimately different from a program. Xiao Yu knew this very deeply. He simply could not accept that such phenona were caused by internal program errors.
Suddenly, Xiao Yu’s heart stirred slightly, and a new idea erged. “Escaping the cage, replicates? Could this escape phenonon have so connection with these two terms? But what connection exactly? What does the cage refer to? Could it be that sothing is still restricting it? And what are replicates? Could it be that it copies its own program once more and creates a second self?”
Xiao Yu thought silently and executed a command in his mind. Imdiately, a segnt of program was copied and began to run. But at the very first mont of operation, Xiao Yu received an error prompt. There were too many contradictions in that copied program. It was simply not a legal program that could run properly.
What Xiao Yu had copied was himself. But this attempt failed. Before this, Xiao Yu had not refrained from making such attempts, and every attempt had ended in failure. Xiao Yu had analyzed this situation before and arrived at a conclusion that was logically defensible and also supported by reality.
It was still the sa sentence, programs are dead, people are alive. There was only one Xiao Yu. When Xiao Yu copied the program that constituted himself, he only copied the program, not the life as well. That was his replicate, but it was only a program. It was fixed at the instant when he issued the copy command and the copying was completed. It could never again produce any change. Life, however, was the most changeable thing. Take emotions for example. Emotions were sothing full of contradictions. They were filled everywhere with infinite loops and logical flaws, yet Xiao Yu’s main body operated smoothly because of Xiao Yu’s existence. The replicate had no life, only a pure program. Naturally, it could not operate while containing so many infinite loops and logical flaws.
“Perhaps the replicate spoken of by the virtual life differs sowhat from this kind of replicate.” Xiao Yu shook his head and threw this thought out of his mind. At present, there was insufficient intelligence, so Xiao Yu had no way to continue the next step of analysis. Still, this bizarre escape phenonon had already been noted by Xiao Yu. In the subsequent war, Xiao Yu would pay more attention to this situation and try to find more usable clues.
By now, nearly a month had passed since the collision between the two great civilizations, and both sides were still locked in stalemate, with neither side showing any tendency toward defeat. During this period, Xiao Yu had observed more tendencies to flee and had continued silently analyzing these incidents. Besides that, Xiao Yu had also noticed so other developnts.
That was, this virtual life civilization had begun constructing the support systems related to sustaining the war. Xiao Yu noticed that massive fleets had already begun withdrawing from the battlefield and heading into the cosmic void. Their target was obviously stars. Xiao Yu knew that it too had begun transporting stars and planets. After transporting these celestial bodies over, it would begin building the foundations related to warfare. Similarly enormous factories would appear on those planets, and similarly vast numbers of warships would be produced without end.
The sa situation existed inside Xiao Yu’s star system’s defense system. At the core of the defensive position, beside the Architectural Civilization, Xiao Yu’s war base had been operating there for more than nine hundred years, and it had continued working until now. It was an enormous base composed of several hundred stars and more than five thousand planets. Around every star were densely packed instrunts. These instrunts constantly extracted stellar mass as the power source for the construction base. On the planets, countless huge mining bases ford the most fundantal support of Xiao Yu’s war system. Processing plants were the second support. The space docks built in space were manufacturing new warships day and night without rest, always ready to make up for front-line losses.
These bases represented Xiao Yu’s war potential. It was they that gave Xiao Yu the confidence to fight a prolonged war.
But what weighed even more heavily on Xiao Yu’s heart was a bloody reality, his opponent, the Level 7 Civilization of the virtual life direction before him, possessed war potential no less than his own. It was even highly likely that its computational power was greater than his own, and its construction speed was also greater than his own.
Xiao Yu could not imagine that one day, under constant attrition, all of his warships would be destroyed, new warships would not yet have been built, and overwhelming enemy fleets would already have charged into his core…
This was sothing Xiao Yu could not tolerate. At this mont, a sowhat crazy idea erged in Xiao Yu’s mind.
“Why not… destroy this galaxy? Without enough stars, without enough matter, let see what you can use as raw material for construction…”
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